Château Kirwan

Château Kirwan, 3eme Cru Classé, Margaux, 2022

Name: Château Kirwan, 3eme Cru Classé, Margaux
Brand: Château Kirwan
Price: 223.5 GBP

94/100

Inside Bordeaux

90-92/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

93/100

The Wine Independent

93/100

Vinous

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En primeur

2022
6x75cl
EP
£223.50

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Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

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Critic Reviews

93/100

Chris Kissack,

The Wine Independent

In this vintage Kirwan is a blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 6% Petit Verdot. The nose feels very true to the Kirwan style, with lightly degraded summer berry fruits to the fore, with a fresh and leafy lift to them, underpinned by a sandy mineral edge, bolstered by a trace of oak. The palate follows the lead of the nose in a quite charming fashion, with degraded fruits swirled with leather and tobacco oak, set over a delicately spiced character, with powdery and spicy tannins underpinning the dark and savoury fruits, leading to a delicately peppered finish. A charming example of Kirwan which has a little mettle, and which will be drinking well in five or ten years. Tasted twice. The alcohol on the label is 14%.

drinking window 2027 - 2047

date of review 06/2025

94/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

Sandalwood, cumin and white pepper spice on the opening, well measured delivery, luscious black cherry fruits, love the lift through the finish, great quality and with real character. Very good with appellation typicity in this ripe year, this is the second time tasting since it bottle, and it continues to impress. 50% new oak.

drinking window 2028 - 2042

date of review 03/2025

93/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2022 Kirwan was transferred into barrel early in October, blended at the end of January, aged for 20 months in 50% new oak and bottled in June 2024. It has a delineated, focused bouquet, with commendable purity of fruit, blackberry and bilberry notes, a light estuarine touch (sea spray) and cedar. The oak is very well integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with granular tannins, a keen thread of acidity and a little more structured than I remember from barrel, rendering it more similar to the 2020 than the 2019. It's lively and peppery on the aftertaste, with more precision than recent vintages. This vindicates my positive review from two years ago. It is one of the finest Kirwans in recent years.

drinking window 2030 - 2065

date of review 02/2025

90-92/100

William Kelley,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

A blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot and the balance Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, the 2022 Kirwan exhibits aromas of dark berries, cassis, sweet spices, pencil shavings and creamy new oak, followed by a medium to full-bodied, rich and fleshy palate that's unusually lively for the vintage, checking in at a pH of 3.55, a number that it would be impressive to attain on gravel soils in this vintage without acidification.

date of review 04/2023

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.